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Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Over Rs 67 crore was incurred on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go to to 5 international locations, together with the US and France, in 2025, whereas the full expenditure figures associated to his international journeys from 2021 until 2024 stood at almost Rs 295 crore, in keeping with information shared by the federal government. As per the country-wise and year-wise information, the corresponding figures for PM Modi’s visits to Mauritius, Cyprus, Canada and Croatia, and Ghana, Trinidad & Tobago, Argentina, Brazil and Namibia this 12 months weren’t accessible. For these visits, the column for ‘complete expenditure’ within the information shared by Minister of State for Exterior Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh on Thursday, in his written response to a question by Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien in Rajya Sabha, stated — “Payments beneath settlement. Complete expenditure not but accessible.”

PM Modi’s costliest journey

Of those visits, the most costly one was to France, which incurred over Rs 25 crore, whereas the one PM Modi undertook to the US in June 2023 incurred over Rs 22 crore. On March 20, the ministry had shared information in in Rajya Sabha, in keeping with which almost Rs 258 crore was incurred on 38 international visits of PM Modi between Could 2022 and December 2024. In 2025, PM Modi had travelled to France and the US from February 10-13. In Paris, he held bilateral talks with President Emmanuel Macron and attended an AI Summit, whereas within the US he met and held talks with President Donald Trump, amongst different engagements.

12 months-wise expense particulars

In line with the information shared, the country-wise figures for these 5 international locations PM Modi visited in 2025 are — Rs 25,59,82,902 (France); Rs 16,54,84,302 (US); Rs 4,92,81,208 (Thailand); Rs 4,46,21,690 (Sri Lanka) and Rs 15,54,03,792.47 (Saudi Arabia). The cumulative figures for the previous 4 years are — about Rs 109 crore (2024) spanning 16 international locations together with Russia, Ukraine, the US and Brazil; almost 93 crore (2023); Rs 55.82 crore (2022) and about Rs 36 crore (2021). In 2021, PM Modi visited Bangladesh (Rs 1,00,71,288 — complete expenditure); the US (Rs 19,63,27,806); Italy (Rs 6,90,49,376); and the UK (Rs 8,57,41,408) in keeping with information shared by Singh in his response.

Different particulars shared by govt

PM Modi’s journeys in 2022 included visits to Germany (Rs 9,44,41,562 — complete expenditure); Denmark (Rs 5,47,46,921); France (Rs 1,95,03,918); Nepal (Rs 80,01,483) and Japan (Rs 8,68,99,372), it stated. The main points associated to public engagements, variety of attendees, and expenditure on promoting and broadcasting of engagements had been additionally shared in one other set of tabulated information. For PM Modi’s 2023 go to to Egypt, the expenditure on promoting and broadcasting was Rs 11.90 lakh, in keeping with the information. 

(With inputs from information company PTI).